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- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
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- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...
- Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring
- There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- SAP wrap and transparency points
- This week's SAP influencer summit was a roller coaster affair. On the one hand I didn't detect anything fundamentally new on the BusinessObjects side other than a considerable amount of repackaging with a view to gaining additional sales. There's nothing wrong with that but it didn't demonstrate a huge amount...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, Smb/Sme, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPUCISC and RISC.I have wondered how Intel proposed to scale their CISC x86 instruction set up to more than a few cores. They can only do this by reducing the complexity of each core, and use less transistors. That means dropping all the clever stuff...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, NVidia Corp., Intel Larrabee, GPU, Intel Corp., Intel Larrabee GPU, graphics
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Supporting the long tail of open source
- Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...
- Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Second guessing at 3AM
- Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...
- Tags: Roman
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- The Microsoft middle ground
- The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...
- Tags: Printers, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, lock-in, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- AOL officially split, but revenue tumbles and ad sales anemic
- AOL officially split, but revenue tumbles and ad sales anemicyep, more and more people are figuringout that AOL is a RIP OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;)RE: AOL officially split, but revenue tumbles and ad sales anemicI lost confidence in AOL a long time ago. The policies and practices of the site limit the usefulness...
- Tags: Operational accounting, America Online Inc., advertising sales, revenue, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Six steps to an effective data governance program
- As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...
- Tags: Data, Organization, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, data governance, mismanagement, Steve Alder, IBM, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-08-06
- CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"
- AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptopĀ also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the "personal data" of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...
- Tags: Clear, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, AP Newswire, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Churchill Club video: Women tech leaders
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...
- Tags: Women, Leader, Video, Li, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 update
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateThey don't know what they are doing!Talk about a keystone cops company!Microsoft makes updates and sticks by them otherwise user confidence will be erroded! -FSBhttp://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comThese iTards are growing toooo fast, they are beninnging to remind me of Gaggle!RE: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateI know you mean...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 2.0.1 update, iPhone 2.0.1, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Making the call: Distinguishing yourself among executives
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...
- Tags: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Li, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, churchill, tech, CEO, women
- Videos 2008-08-04
- 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited
- Photo gallery:2008 Hyundai Santa Fe LimitedThe 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe is the second model we've seen from Hyundai with a navigation system, reinforcing the fact that the company is seriously upping its tech game. But unlike the 2009 Sonata, the tech in the Santa Fe is more of an add-on,...
- Tags: Santa Fe, navigation system, Hyundai
- Product reviews 2008-08-01
- Yahoo's Bostock says Board "called the shots" about Microsoft.
- Yahoo's Bostock says Board "called the shots" about Microsoft.Sounds like he is attempting to instil some confidenceback into the investors. What else is he going to say? Yang screwed up and we let him?Of course he is going to paint himself, and the rest of the board as the "Heros...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Yang, Bostock, Microsoft Corp., board, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism
- Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelismMore InvestmentTwo words. How long? This new commitment is certainly a good direction, but it's hard to see it as leadership at this late stage. The move into parallelism is a great equalizer. The laws of diminishing returns are applied across the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Games, Game players, parallelism, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Eight pitfalls of predictive markets
- Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and doom for many an organization. Here then are eight problems you'll want to avoid as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Market, Investment, Finance, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
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